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Show Condor Being exterminated. The Callfronla condor Is practically the rarest bird living In 'he world today, to-day, being much scarcer than the Andean An-dean condor of South AniPrlca, and Is rapidly following the gtat auk and Labrador duck Into extinction. Its skin Is valued at fiom $25 to $75 by taxidermists, while tho egg Is worth from $100 to $200 nccc 'ng to Its condition, and thero Is always a market mar-ket for both skin nnd egg open to tho collector who Is so fortunate as to take either. Within a few years these huge birds, whose wing spread Is often thirteen feet, will all havo passed away |